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Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier : waer in wijtloopigh wert verhandelt, de wijze van scheeps-timmeren, by Grieken en Romeynen : scheeps-oeffeningen, strijden, tucht, straffe, wetten en gewoonten : beneffens evenmatige grootheden van schepen onses tijts, ontleet in alle hare deelen : verschil van bouwen tusschen uitheemschen en onzen landaert : indisch vaertuygh : galey-bouw : hedendaegsche scheeps-plichten : verrijckt met een reex verklaerde zee-mans spreeck-woorden en benamingen : doorgaens verciert met vele kopere platen

by: Witsen, Nicolaas, 1641-1717; Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708

Publication date: 1671
Topics: Shipbuilding, Shipbuilding, Naval art and science, Shipbuilding, Shipbuilding, Naval art and science
Publisher: t' Amsterdam : By Casparus Commelijn, Broer en Jan Appelaer, Boeck-verkoopers
Collection: getty; americana
Contributor: Getty Research Institute
Language: Dutch
Item Size: 11.2G

Etched half-title (with some engraving): Scheeps bovw en bestier, door N. Witsen / R.D. Hooghe inv. et fec. 1671

Running title: Scheeps-bouw en bestier

Some plates signed: N. Witsen delin. Others signed: P.L

Includes index

Landwehr, J. Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator

Preliminaries of copy described by Landwehr include "Berigt voor den Boeck-binder ..." and author's port., not present in Library's copy

Binding: old vellum over pasteboard. Both boards blindstamped with lozenge-shaped center design surrounded by two fillets forming concentric rectangles. Spine with 5 raised bands; title written in brown ink in 2nd panel: N. Witzen Aaloude en Hedendaagse Scheepsbouw, with date in 3rd panel: 1671. Top and bottom boards each have 2 green cloth ties

Library's copy has bookplates of John Landwehr and of F.C. Koch